1 Kings 12:26-29

26Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David. 27 aIf this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.” 28So the king
Lit took counsel
consulted, and cmade two golden dcalves, and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; ebehold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
29He set fone in gBethel, and the other he put in hDan.
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